Ontario Provincial Police charged a 33-year-old driver after getting a report of an individual sleeping at the wheel of a vehicle on Nov. 8. At around 11:20 p.m., officers were called out to a complaint about a person sleeping in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle on Quesnel Road in West Nipissing, police said in a news release Monday. “Officers located the vehicle and arrested the driver for impaired operation,” police said. “A small quantity of a substance believed to be methamphetamine was seized by police.” A West Nipissing man was charged with impaired driving and drug possession and is scheduled to appear in North Bay court Feb. 4. The man’s the driver’s licence was also suspended and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.
